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Friday, October 3, 2014

Vincent Browne and The People's Debate

I watched with interest the programme called The
People's Debate on TV3 chaired by Vincent Browne on Wednesday night
October 1st.

Not surprisingly each of the contributors, with one exception, based
their comments on the assumption that all solutions to the problems of
the Irish working class are solvable within the framework of
capitalism.They do not see capitalism as the cause of the problems
experienced by the Irish working class. They do not see that the only
solution to the problems of the working class is social revolution
involving the replacement of capitalist society with communist society.

Many, if not most, of the contributors, were advocating the reforming of
capitalism in one way or another. They failed to make clear that the
problem is not the way capitalism is structured but capitalism itself.
It is an obsolescent system that cannot meet the needs of the working
class.

People from the Anti-Austerity Alliance and People Before Profits
featured prominently on the show in suggesting capitalist solutions to
working class problems. They want to save capitalism from itself. Both
these organisations are fronts for The Socialist Party and the Socialist
Workers Party respectively.Yet as radical socialist, even Marxist,
parties, they support capitaltism while pretending to be against it.

Parties such as the SP, SWP and Sinn Fein are essentially no different
from each other nor from Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Fianna Fail.
They are all bourgeois nationalist parties competing for power within
the capitalist system. Reformism is still alive and well and embedded
within the Irish working class movement.